His popularity with conservatives is also because of his views on gender relations – he believes there is a 'crisis of masculinity' and questions concepts such as 'patriarchy'. Partly it's because of what propelled him to prominence, always a hot-button issue with this demographic – Peterson argued it was wrong to compel him to use the 'preferred gender pronouns' of transexual people and that it was 'Marxist' to try to make him (he is a serious student of authoritarian regimes and their philosophies). Partly this is because, as a disciple of Jung, he takes religion seriously, with intense and thoughtful readings of Old Testament Scripture passages.
Generally speaking, he is loathed by liberals and loved by conservatives – including and especially Christian conservatives. He's in demand as a conference speaker, interviewee and debater. Since then he's become a YouTube star with 1,795,000 subscribers to his channel.
Precise, intense and rather menacing, he came to prominence in 2016 when he released a series of videos critiquing the Canadian government's Bill C-16, which added gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination. I admit it: I enjoyed it, and when it was over I watched it again, like Father Ted with Bishop Brennan's dodgy holiday video.īut Peterson, I discovered, was as polarising as Marmite. Jordan Peterson's views on gender are controversial. The general consensus was that she had been comprehensively trounced, though Channel 4 sportingly put the whole interview on YouTube so viewers could make their own minds up. She zeroed in on what she assumed were his views on men and women, attempting serial paraphrases of what she thought he meant: 'So what you're saying is.' 'No, that's not what I'm saying at all,' was his serial reply, with Newman at one point reduced to an awkward silence. Newman's approach was hostile, extremely so.
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